The goal of conservation and restoration activities is to maintain biological diversity and the
ecosystem services that this diversity provides. These activities traditionally focus on the …

The increasing availability of phylogenetic data, computing power and informatics tools has
facilitated a rapid expansion of studies that apply phylogenetic data and methods to …

Animal foraging and competition are defined by the partitioning of three primary niche axes:
space, time, and resources. Human disturbance is rapidly altering the spatial and temporal …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

Ecological approaches to community assembly have emphasized the interplay between
neutral processes, niche-based environmental filtering and niche-based species sorting in …

Species within a guild vary their use of time, space and resources, thereby enabling
sympatry. As intra-guild competition intensifies, such behavioural adaptations may become …

Carnivore guilds play a vital role in ecological communities by cascading trophic effects,
energy and nutrient transfer, and stabilizing or destabilizing food webs. Consequently, the …

It is now commonplace in community ecology to assess patterns of phylogenetic or
functional diversity in order to inform our understanding of the assembly mechanisms that …

The merger of phylogenies with ecology has given rise to the field of “community
phylogenetics,” predicated on the assumption that ecological differences among species …

A goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the roles of geography and ecology in
speciation. The recent shared ancestry of sister species can leave a major imprint on their …